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Lightning AI vs Tableau [Private Offer Only] comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Lightning AI
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
27th
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Tableau [Private Offer Only]
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
497th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
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Featured Reviews

Shravan Revanna - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at klydo.in
Rapid experimentation has transformed our AI prototyping and collaboration workflows
There are definitely a few areas where Lightning AI can improve. Overall, we have had a positive impact, but there are definitely a few areas it could enhance. One area is cost visibility and resource management. There are multiple teams running experiments, GPUs, and long-running sessions. It is not always obvious how much compute is being consumed and what the projected costs might be. More granular visibility and alerts would help the team manage usage proactively. Another area is workspace and project organization. As the number of experiments grows, it can become difficult to keep projects, notebooks, data sets, and test environments organized. Better lifecycle management could help achieve this and discoverability would be useful for larger teams. We have also encountered situations where long-running sessions or development environments needed more resilience. While this is not unique to Lightning AI, interruptions during model training and experimentation can be frustrating, especially when working with larger data sets. From an enterprise perspective, I think there is room to strengthen governance and operational control. Features around permissions, auditability, environment standardization, and usage policies become increasingly important as adoption expands across teams. I would particularly appreciate better support for moving successful experiments into production workflows. There could be better cost and resource visibility, stronger project and experiment organization, improved reliability for long-running sessions, stronger governance capabilities, and a smoother journey from experimentation to production. None of these are major blockers for us, but these are areas where the platform could become more valuable as the team and workload scale. A minor annoyance would be stronger project and experiment organization. When more data sets and more projects come into place, it becomes difficult to organize, and keeping them in a standardized way becomes slightly difficult. That is an area I wanted to highlight. There is not much of a pain point. There are a few minor suggestions I would mention, such as observability and experiment tracking at scale. When teams start running many experiments across different models, it becomes increasingly important to have a clear view of what changed and why performance improved or declined. That could be one area. Another area is cross-team discoverability. As AI adoption grows within an organization, valuable experiments and reusable components can be scattered. Better mechanisms for surfacing reusable workflows and templates would be beneficial. I would also appreciate continued investment in LLM and agent development workflows. The AI landscape is evolving rapidly. These suggestions come from the perspective of a team that is using the platform heavily. Most of the core capabilities work well today, which is why the feedback is more about helping the platform scale with a growing AI organization rather than fixing major shortcomings.
YA
Data Strategist at Data Catalyst
Visual analytics has transformed national statistics strategies and empowers broad data collaboration
The learning curve part could be improved. Once you start using Tableau [Private Offer Only], you do not have a problem, but if you are new, that aspect hits you immediately and confuses you. Additionally, if natural language processing were incorporated, it would make life easier for users looking to quickly get insights from their data. Currently, I am linking KNIME and Tableau [Private Offer Only] because there are many things you can do easily with KNIME, and Tableau Prep could be better. Tableau [Private Offer Only] Prep does impact data readiness, but it is difficult to train others using it compared to using KNIME for data cleansing. It is good if you know what you are doing. I believe the focus should be on improving the AI side of Tableau [Private Offer Only] so I can load my data dictionary and business glossary for better assistance in my analyses. The learning curve for data cleansing is not ideal as it could be. People new to Tableau [Private Offer Only] often confuse dimensions and measures, which could be simplified through explanations or even tooltips.

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Pros

"With the help of Lightning AI, we were able to manage our workflows efficiently, manage our GPU infrastructure effectively, and save a substantial amount of time and actions in those areas."
"Lightning AI is excellent for setting up GPU servers, Docker, Kubernetes, and ML infrastructure, providing everything in one platform, which is the unique aspect I have noticed."
"Overall, it has helped us spend less time on infrastructure and operational setup and more time building constantly and evaluating AI solutions that can create value for businesses."
"Lightning AI changed my workflow compared to what I was doing before by not only saving my time, but also making my training and validations more standardized to try different hyperparameters and logging metrics and tracking points."
"Tableau [Private Offer Only] is easy to use for creating visualizations, it is easy to navigate, and it has incorporated formulas which are not difficult to understand, making it an ideal easy-to-use tool."
"If you use Tableau [Private Offer Only], you get value for money and the ability to demonstrate your analysis and visualizations effectively."
 

Cons

"When running large workloads or complex projects, Lightning AI can sometimes experience lag or latency issues, and I am not always satisfied with the training results, as I have noticed spikes during training."
"I think I have an idea for improving Lightning AI in the area of debugging distributed training. I know the abstraction is great, but when something can go wrong in multi-GPUs, we could probably have more intuitive diagnostics or clearer error messages that would help us to further reduce iteration time or debugging time."
"There are definitely a few areas where Lightning AI can improve."
"At the moment, I do not find it cost-effective, and I have not seen any measurable benefits or ROI with Tableau [Private Offer Only]."
"The learning curve part could be improved. Once you start using Tableau [Private Offer Only], you do not have a problem, but if you are new, that aspect hits you immediately and confuses you."
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Top Industries

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Construction Company
32%
University
15%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
7%
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Lightning AI?
Lightning AI is currently in a good stage, but for improvements, integrated tools could be added to easily update ticket statuses directly from Lightning AI, persistent storage offerings could be e...
What is your primary use case for Lightning AI?
My main use case for Lightning AI was personally training a large language model named Bharat LLM, which is a Hindi, English, and Hinglish model with seven billion parameters, trained on roughly ei...
What advice do you have for others considering Lightning AI?
I would advise others looking into using Lightning AI to consider it as a platform where you don't have to worry much about infrastructure and management across your codebase. Lightning AI is a ver...
What needs improvement with Tableau [Private Offer Only]?
The learning curve part could be improved. Once you start using Tableau [Private Offer Only], you do not have a problem, but if you are new, that aspect hits you immediately and confuses you. Addit...
What is your primary use case for Tableau [Private Offer Only]?
My use cases for Tableau [Private Offer Only] are primarily for visual analytics. I developed the National Strategy for Development of Statistics for Ghana and Liberia, with the Liberia strategy co...
What advice do you have for others considering Tableau [Private Offer Only]?
Even if working alone, there are certain things I want to discuss with others, especially when analyzing someone's data. If collaboration were more accessible, it would simplify a lot of work for c...
 

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